Archive for the ‘Songs of 1947’ Category
Sukh ki raaten thhin sapnaa
Posted on: June 7, 2016
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 45
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In the 1940s, Hindi films based on mythological and historical stories were produced among other genres of the film. Minerva Movietone’s ‘Sikandar’ (1941) set the benchmark for this genre of movies. The subsequent movies of this genre like ‘Prithvi Vallabh’ (1943), ‘Draupadi’ (1944)‘, Humayun’(1945), ‘Veer Kunal’ (1945), ‘Samrat Chandragupta’ (1945), ‘Krishnarjun Yuddh’ (1945), Prithviraj Sanyukta’ (1946), ‘Maharana Pratap’ (1946) etc are supposed to have paled in comparison to ‘Sikandar’ (1941) in terms of grandeur, picturisation of outdoor scenes besides screen-play and dialogues.
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s -33
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MANMAANI (1947) was produced under the banner of Ajit Pictures and it was directed by Sarvottam Badami. The star cast included Jairaj, Ragini, E. Billimoria, Sabita Devi, Nazir Hussain, Amar etc. There were 10 songs in the film but the name of the lyricist is not known. From the gist of the story given in Wikipedia, the film appears to be an interesting one:
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 32
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DEEWAANI (1947) was produced by Sohrab Modi under the banner of Minerva Movietone and it was directed by Y D Sarpotdar. The star cast included Wasti, Mumtaz Shanti, Husn Bano, Ghulam Hussain, Abu Bakar, Chanda Bai, Jilani, Sadat Ali, Satya Rani etc. There were 8 songs in the film written by Shams Azimabadi (6) and Sewan Rizvi (2) which were set to music by Gyan Dutt. From the star cast and a couple of songs that I heard, the film seems to belong to social genre, probably a family drama. One song from the film has been covered in the Blog.
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 30
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The date was 11th March 1947. The place was Jeevan House, Bombay. The Secretary of the Progressive Writers Association (PWA) was reporting the proceedings of its weekly meeting. Around 50 poets and writers had assembled at the meeting. Among them were Josh Malihabadi, Saghar Nizami, Dr Safdar Aah Sitapuri, Majaz Lucknawi, Ali Sardar Jafri, Vishwamitra Adil, Kaifi Azmi, Sahir Ludhianvi and Majrooh Sultanpuri.
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 27
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When I got the mp3 clip of “nainan jal bhar aaye preet kiye pachhtaaye” of ‘Samrat Ashok’ (1947) sung by Binapani Mukherjee, I checked the song list for the film in http://www.myswar.com and found out that there was another more or less similarly worded song in the movie attributed to Amirbai Karnataki. I thought that this must be another version of the same song. However, I could not get the audio clip or mp3 clip of Amirbai Karnataki version of the song on YT or any other websites. So I wrote an e-mail to Shri Sudhir Kapur whether he had the required mp3 clip. I was fairly hopeful of getting the same from him since I knew during the Mumbai Gangout meets that he had a very large collections of mp3 clips of songs of Hindi films, especially of 1930s and 1940s. And my assessment was right. Within a few hours of receiving my e-mail request, he sent me the required mp3 clip of Amirbai Karnataki version of the song.
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 26
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Historical events and dramas have been one of the favourite genres of Hindi film makers ever since talkies came into being in 1931. There have been Hindi films made in the 1930s that were based on historical events. Films like ‘Noor Jahan’ (1931), ‘Veer Kunal’ (1932), ‘Prithviraj Samyukta’ (1933), ‘Chandragupta’ (1934), ‘Sultana Chand Bibi’ (1936) and some more were made during this period. I am not aware whether these films were successful at the box office or not. However, I am aware that ‘Pukar’ (1939) and ‘Sikandar’ (1941) were box office hit films belonging to the genre of historical events. I guess that the success of these two films set the tone to produce more films of this genre in the 1940s like ‘Taj Mahal’ (1941), ‘Prithvi Vallabh’(1943), ‘Shahenshah Akbar’ (1943), ‘Mumtaz Mahal’ (1944), ‘Veer Kunal’ (1945) ‘Humayun’ (1945) , Shahjehan’(1946), ‘Padmini’ (1948) and many more.
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 19
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GEET GOVIND (1947) was produced under the banner of Kanu Desai Productions and was directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The star cast included Prem Adib, Leela Desai, Sulochana Chatterjee, David, Bhagwan Das, Ram Singh, Pesi Patel, Kantilal, Rampiyari etc. There were 14 songs in the film penned by Pandit Indra (11) and Balam Pardesi (3) which were set to music by Gyan Dutt. The film was released on 3rd January 1948 at Majestic Cinema in Bombay (Mumbai).
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“Mehndi”(1947) was directed by Sibtain Fazli for Fazli Films, Bombay. The movie had Nargis, Begam Para, Murad, Ghori, Jillobai, Jaani babu, Protima Devi, Chacha Premi, Anwari, Zaki, Baby Shyama etc in it.
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 13
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Naqsh-e-khayaal dil se mitaaya nahin hanooz
Bedard maine tujh ko bhulaaya nahin hanooz
——Josh Malihabadi
Dil se tera khayaal na jaaye to kya karoon
Main kya karoon koi na bataaye to kya karoon
—–Hafeez Jalandhari
Both these ghazals have been written in the same metre expressing almost the same sentiments. I have no idea as to which one of them was written first. But these ghazals have become a source of inspiration for writing lyrics for songs in Hindi films for situations like ‘broken heart’, separation from the beloved etc.
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